The Inevitable Demise of eBay....

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I've run across a few $0.99 openers with $9.00 mailing costs lately.

FWIW, I think 10% to sell an item still is a good deal. An auctioneer will take twice that at least (BP + Comm), if your consignment is accepted at all.

I'm assuming the $9 shipping charge is out of line for what they're auctioning? and I agree that 10% is not bad...and almost everyone pays with paypal so that ups it to 13%. Of course anything I'm listing for 99 cents is something that I probably wouldn't have listed and it would have filled up a box in my basement.

[T206DK]

Ebay's demise was probably forseen by many of the more mature employees back in 2005-6. They don't work there anymore ! I think at that time the oldest person working in their customer service department was around 25-27 years old. The oldest person at the Utah location was 31 when my friend Steve worked there. They used to have an indoor basketball court inside the work premises, and a video game room for employees to hang out in.

[D. Bergin]

I wonder if people realize there's actually a Tab at the top of every search page that easily separates the Auction items from the Buy It Now items if you want.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I wonder if people realize there's actually a Tab at the top of every search page that easily separates the Auction items from the Buy It Now items if you want.

Yep...never had to use it until recently. My search for "Nebraska Baseball" within the title and body of the auction used to bring up about 500 hits...now it's over 4,000...with the large majority of those being BIN's.

[T206DK]

here's another thing that's wrong with the new Ebay business model. My brother just got 2 positive feedback comments on his account and his rating actually driopped. Unbelievable !

[autograf]

Yep.....all my dozens of searches are now screwed up. Not a HUGE deal to separate auctions from BIN's but different. I'm slooooowwwwllllyyy getting used to it. I think eBay exists solely just to change crap when they really don't need to. They had a great business model and they just keep striking out while updating things that such a miniscule minority of people would even care about. I also think they have cow-towed to their legal department so much that the whole system is about useless. It's like they have malpractice insurance and they have to change EVERYTHING just to be compliant. Still tough to find somewhere else that has any real amount of the stuff we're looking for though.......

[JP]

The real problem with eBay is that they let auctions like this happen. No way does that person have that card....and no feedback in forever, so obviously a hijacked account!

[4815162342]

Well, he had a "smooth etopps transaction"!